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Why no necklace for bailout reg?

Given that seconds are vital when bailing out from a rebreather, I wondered why I have never seen anyone put their first bailout reg on a necklace like we used to on OC with our secondaries? Does anyone do it? - how are you routing the hose?

Re: Why no necklace for bailout reg?

Originally Posted by Abbo

Given that seconds are vital when bailing out from a rebreather, I wondered why I have never seen anyone put their first bailout reg on a necklace like we used to on OC with our secondaries? Does anyone do it? - how are you routing the hose?

When diving on a unit without a BOV, I usually put the 2nd stage on a necklace. It makes it much easier and faster to locate.

Re: Why no necklace for bailout reg?

Originally Posted by Abbo

Given that seconds are vital when bailing out from a rebreather, I wondered why I have never seen anyone put their first bailout reg on a necklace like we used to on OC with our secondaries? Does anyone do it? - how are you routing the hose?

I reckon it's bred out of you on MOD 1 - it certainly was for me. I started the course with a bailout reg bungied under my chin and found the stage on / off drill a right pain in the arse with that set up.

It would seem that french divers bungie a boltsnap under their chins and attach the bailout second stage to that via a loop of line tied round the mouthpiece. That's what I did for the ret of MOD 1. Since then I've gone BOV.

Re: Why no necklace for bailout reg?

Funny you mentioned it - I've just started doing it relatively recently - very handy, particularly in low visibility diving and if you also want to make life relatively easy for your buddy if they need to access it too.

Re: Why no necklace for bailout reg?

I always did it too. With my bailout on the left, hose came up, over my left shoulder, round my neck, over right shoulder and under chin on a gag. Hose was a 1.5m hose. When bailing out I always preferred pulling the loop down and to the side rather than over the head.

I now use a BOV that's about a million times more reliable than a Paragon but I run the hose to it the same way from my offboard only now it's QC'd to the BOV rather than necklaced.

Re: Why no necklace for bailout reg?

Originally Posted by montyg

All my stuff is Apeks so there always seems to be a hose poking in a wayward direction, which is very uncool :-P

HTH

rgds
monty

Hi Monty,
Did you hear that Apeks are going to be releasing a small modification to ( I think) the seat bit that screws down through the turret on the DST so you can have a port on the top like the Scubapro?